Weaving eyewitness history through US history, Forming the Public reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us about the nature of journalism's own interests in race, gender, and class while tracing the factors that shaped the contours of dominant American culture.
|Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public
Notes
Index
|Frank Durham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Thomas Oates is an associate professor in the department of American Studies and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Iowa. His books include Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL.